There has been plenty of embargoes and cutting off certain supply lines in the past.
Zoner - Corsairs being one example.
I'm sure there are plenty of more if we are going backwards in Discovery History. We let these things play out, because it leads to changes, and change is always good because it means new kind of gameplay. I'm sorry but I'm not gonna sit and fight the same damn enemy over the same ground for months on end. It simply gets boring and that's exactly why when for example this embargo occurred, you suddenly saw an explosion in USI activity.
In the past months I have never seen these guys on that much, now they are almost all the time online. Are we going to sit here and go down into every piece of theoretical detail and deny spontaneous Role-Play caused by real in-game events that are witnessed and interacted players or are we going to actually have fun and roll with it.
What I'm basically saying is, your attitude promotes boring gameplay.